An essay on the disease called yellow fever : with observations concerning febrile contagion, typhus fever, dysentery, and the plague, partly delivered as the Gulstonian lectures, before the Collge of Physicians, in the years 1806 and 1807. / By Edward Nathaniel Bancroft.

  • Bancroft, Edward Nathaniel, 1772-1842.
Date:
1811
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Credit: An essay on the disease called yellow fever : with observations concerning febrile contagion, typhus fever, dysentery, and the plague, partly delivered as the Gulstonian lectures, before the Collge of Physicians, in the years 1806 and 1807. / By Edward Nathaniel Bancroft. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    75 restore that organ to its proper functions, to . strengtlien the system, and to prevent any return of tlie Fever. It should, however, be a rule not to give bark in this disorder till the period just mentioned; for if it be given when there is a parched skin, a hard pulse, a dry tongue, great heat and pain at the stomach, or delirium, it will generally be found to increase and prolong these symptoms. When the patient begins to sink in strength, he should be supported by combining aromatics with the bark, and also by wine more or less diluted, or even brandy, which is often more palatable and more easily retained by the sto- mach, than wine; and these cordials should afterwards be continued, or increased according to the state of his stomach, and the degree of his debility. If the extremities grow cold, they should be warmed by artificial means. Mercury. It will doubtless be expected that I should speak of salivation by Mercury in the Yellow Fever, regimen, and moderate evacuations, succeeded even by a late use of the bark, many recovered; and that under the early, liberal, and continued use of this medicine, not one instance of death is recorded.”